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THE SARMATIAN REVIEW Vol. XXXIII, No. 1 January 2013 Death of a Poet Tadeusz Gajcy (1922–1944) Tadeusz Gajcy, one of the three young poet-soldiers killed in the Warsaw Rising on 16 August 1944. Consigned to oblivion by Jakub Berman and his fellow communist ideologues in Soviet-occupied Poland, he is now being rediscovered. He has been compared to Niccolo Paganini playing a Stradivarius. Photo courtesy of the Jarosław and Anna Iwaszkiewicz Museum in Stawisko, Poland (stawisko.pl). 1712 SARMATIAN REVIEW January 2013 The Sarmatian Review (ISSN 1059- Agata Brajerska-Mazur, A Strange Richard J. Hunter, Jr., is Professor 5872) is a triannual publication of the Polish Institute Poet: A Commentary on Cyprian of Legal Studies and Chair, of Houston. The journal deals with Polish, Central, Kamil Norwid’s Verse . .1723 Department of Economics and and Eastern European affairs, and it explores their implications for the United States. 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Ihnatowicz (University of Saint Thomas-Houston), Bozena Marek Jan Chodakiewicz is Slavic Languages and Literatures at Karwowska (University of British Columbia), Joseph Professor of History and Dean of the University of Chicago. A.Kotarba (University of Houston), Marcus D. Arts and Sciences at The Institute Leuchter, 1909–2008 (Holocaust Museum Houston),Witold J. Lukaszewski (Sam Houston State of World Politics in Washington, University), Theresa Kurk McGinley (North Harris DC. His most recent book is College-Houston), Michael J. MikoÊ(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Jan Rybicki (Kraków Intermarium: The Land between the Pedagogical University), Dariusz Skórczewski Black and Baltic Seas (Transaction (Catholic University of Lublin), Piotr Wilczek Publishers, 2012). (University of Warsaw) Copy Editor: Cyndy Brown Patrick Corness is a British scholar Web Pages: Jane Zhao (Rice University) and translator associated with the Web Address: <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia>. University of Leeds. He has Alternate Web Address: Central and East European Online Library <ceeol.com> under translated Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Periodicals>United States>Sarmatian Review. Czech, and Polish literary and Archival Web Address: http://scholarship.rice.edu/ handle/1911/21840. scholarly texts including drama and poetry by Polish eighteenth-century In this issue: writer Franciszka Urszula About the Authors. 1711 Radziwiłłowa. Brigitte Gautier, Overcoming the Burden of Brigitte Gautier is Associate History: The Poetry of Tadeusz Gajcy, Professor of Polish at the Charles de Czesław Miłosz, and Zbigniew Herbert . Gaulle University in Lille, France. 1715 Spring flowers: Êniežyczka. January 2013 SARMATIAN REVIEW 1713 Sarmatian Review Data Sobering data on fake Internet and journal book reviews Number of self-published books in the United States in 2006 and 2011, respectively: 51,237 and over 300,000. Price of a glowing Web review (as ordered from a review-producing company): from $5 to $15. Price of a negative book review: unmentioned. Number of reviews one paid reviewer writes per week: 70. Price charged to author/publisher by a journal specializing in reviews to publish a review: $425. Estimated number of fake Internet reviews (i.e., reviews commissioned for money or in order to promote or demote a product): one-third of all reviews (estimate given by Bing Liu, a data-mining expert at the University of Illinois-Chicago). Source: David Streitfeld, “The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy,” New York Times (Business), 25 August 2012. Traveling by plane in Russia Ranking of Russia among the most dangerous countries for traveling by plane: 1 (second place is occupied by the Democratic Republic of Congo). Number of people that died in plane crashes in Russia in 2011: 140. Source: Denis Petrov, “Twenty Years After the Fall,” Chronicles: Magazine of American Culture, October 2012, 41. Military draftee problems in Russia Shortfall in last year’s (October 1, 2011-December 31, 2011) fall military draft: 30 percent. The official target for the 2012 fall draft: 140,140 or around 15,000 lower than the spring draft (155,570). Official Russian estimate of the number of persons serving in the Russian military: one million. The real number: around 700,000. Percentage of young Russians medically unfit for military service, according to Olga Kovtun, member of the Union of Pediatricians: 60 percent. Percentage of teenage boys and girls that have reproductive illnesses: 46 percent and 65 percent, respectively. Source: Russian Defense Minister Anatolii Serdyukov, in an interview with Itogi on 15 October 2012, as reported by Roger McDermott, “Serdyukov Confirms Long-Term Dependence on Dwindling Military Conscription,” Eurasia Daily Monitor, vol. 9, no.193 (23 October 2012). Left-leaning media troubles in Poland Left-leaning periodicals that have recently been declared in danger of closing or have already closed: Przekrój (a general entertainment social weekly founded in 1945); Filmowy Magazyn do czytania; and Happy (two off- springs of Agora, the parent company of Gazeta Wyborcza). Additionally, regional supplements to Gazeta Wyborcza have been cut. Reasons for shrinkage: in the current year Agora’s income fell by 11 percent in comparison to the previous year, while Przekrój readership fell to about 20,000, a figure that does not cover publishing expenses. Source: <wpolityce>, 7–9 October 2012 (accessed 9 October 2012). Postcommunism in Belarus Population of Belarus in 1999 and 2009 (according to two censuses): 10,045 million and 9, 489 million (a drop of 5,5 percent). Source: Henryk Borko, “Czy Białorusi grozi kryzys demograficzny?” <Diarium.pl>, 12 September 2011 (accessed 29 October 2012). Marriages and divorces in the second half of 2012 in Belarus: 835 divorces for every 1,000 marriages. Number of abortions between 1990–2010: 2.7 million. Source: Catholic Press Service in Belarus, as reported by <kresy24.pl> and <http://rebelya.pl/post/2792>, accessed 30 October 2012. Current estimated rate of population decline in Belarus: -0.362 percent per year. Source: CIA 2012 World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bo.html), accessed 30 October 2012. Profession in which there are job openings worldwide Estimated number of commercial aircraft pilots needed in the forthcoming 20 years worldwide: 450,000. Source: